3. Describe a job you'd be willing to take on for free, and one you wouldn't touch for any amount of money. These could be purely hypothetical, or genuine opportunities that you either accepted or turned down in the recent past.
Whoa there, chummer! This is getting all of sudden several kinds of personal. I think maybe you're skimming info for some Johnson to see if they can get old man Rake to work for peanuts.
Truthfully, though, I guess they are some jobs even I wouldn't take and there are other jobs that even I would do for non-financial motivations.
First up: the nevers, 'cause those are easy. Scan this: even the roughest, toughest, meanest ganger you ever come across will draw the line somewhere. Crazy is a different story, but rational self-interest has limits for most slots. Since I'm not the roughest, toughest anything, you can imagine there's a bit of a list of things I won't do, mostly the obvious ones:
1. Nothing about killing/capturing/hurting kids:
That's bad karma, and kids aren't aware enough or accountable enough to be dragged into the shadows. You want leverage on somebody, maybe a lover is fair game (emphasis on the maybe), but the truth of the matter is that money really motivates better. You get at somebody's livelihood, then you can bend them. Keep the families out of it, and we can all sleep a bit easier.
2. No slaving:
I got a problem with slavery and similar things, but I have direct personal experience with the nuanced distinction between that and indentured servitude. Even though my one-time "creditors" dabbled in the trade, the members I ran with dealt in lesser vices, so I wasn't ever put in a rock-or-hard-place type of position. So yeah, I don't think I'd ever knowingly take a job that resulted in someone being enslaved or otherwise "owned" in that sense.
3. Not so much a "never" as a notion about something to avoid:
Minimize "collateral damages", even if the job doesn't require you to. Keep your weapons pointed at your actual targets; don't go spraying lead like some thrill-ganger jacked up on beetles. I lost someone dear to me as a consequence of being an innocent bystander caught in the crossfire, so I won't tolerate my teammates acting in a way that endangers regular folks unnecessarily.
As for the freebies, well those are maybe more limited in scope:
1. Any job that reconciles a past failure of my own.
If you turned something into a drek-drenched omnishambles, then you've got to step up and make it right. This applies equally to the cases of "should have known better" and "been double-crossed".
2. Settling a score.
See the bit about double-crossing above. All debts should be paid, omae.
-Rake